This blog post first appeared as my Q & A with John Schu Trifecta with The Nerdy Book Club and Colby Sharp on 10/2/2014. John wrote the words in red, and I wrote the words in black. Thank you, John! And thank you, everyone, for reading! * I think Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with

Welcome to Sharktober! The jawesomest month of the year! And the first month to see Neighborhood Sharks swim onto shelves across the country! We kicked off the festivities on Tuesday night with my launch party at New York City’s Books of Wonder. Full of friends, sharks, wine, an

Every September the great white sharks return to San Francisco. While their 800,000 human neighbors dine on steak, salad, and sandwiches, the white sharks hunt for their favorite meal . . . At long last my debut picture book, Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of the F

There are no lightsabers in Neighborhood Sharks (pity, I know). But when you’re battling the monster that is cover design and choosing the title for your first book, you’ll try just about anything to mix it up! It was July 2013, the interior art of my shark book was done and in, and m

In honor of Shark Week it’s finally time to post my favorite in-studio video yet! Kids and parents beware: this drawing is not for the faint of heart! The animals drawn in this scene are a great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and a juvenile elephant seal (Mirounga a

Designing a book cover is one of those assignments that illustration teachers love to give and illustration students hate to do. Another new cover for GREAT EXPECTATIONS? Really? Okay… well… there’s a convict, a boy, Miss Havisham… did I even finish reading this in high school? As red

I love getting things in the mail! (Well, most things anyway.) But yesterday I scored not one but two delivery home runs: two copies of the July 2014 School Library Journal featuring Neighborhood Sharks and my first (starred!) review, and—even cooler!!—my first real copies of my first

It’s finally time to release my very first time-lapse video! Hurray! Set to the tune of the shark-filled waters of the Gulf of the Farallones, this video captures the making of final interior art for the last page spread in Neighborhood Sharks. As you watch, be sure to listen for the